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Subject: Modern First Editions
Published Date: 1918
Stock Number: 74840
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Eminent Victorians - Strachey (Lytton)
A Book of Nursery Rhymes. - (Incline Press.) MARX (Enid, Illustrator)
Description: FIRST EDITION, 6 portraits of the subjects, Cardinal Manning's as frontispiece, title-page browned from tissue-guard, occasional faint spots throughout, pp. xiii, 310, 8vo, original black cloth, printed label to backstrip (browned and rubbed), general wear, splitting to cloth along joints, corners knocked, t.e.g., others roughtrimmed, edges browned, a few spots to these and endpapers, ownership inscription of Barbara Bagenal to front pastedown (see below),poor
Publication Details: Chatto & Windus, 1918
Notes: Inscribed by the author to another Bloomsbury Group member, the artist Barbara Bagenal (née Hiles), a friend of Carrington from the Slade who assisted the Woolfs in their early printing and had long relationships with Saxon Sydney-Turner and Clive Bell. Bagenal has noted in pencil two typographic errors, with corresponding marks to the margins on pp. 165 & 188.The first edition of Strachey's major work is uncommon.
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Published Date: 1918
Stock Number: 74840
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